We performed a comparison between Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: RHEL excels in setup, integration, security updates, and application support. However, it falls short in terms of documentation, pricing, and customer support. SUSE Linux Enterprise is praised for its simplicity, flexibility, user-friendliness, and customer support. It needs improvement in GUI, pricing competitiveness, and integration.
"The most valuable feature is the OpenShift platform."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linunx's most valuable feature is patching."
"The security features are better than many other solutions offer."
"For us, its security, management, stability, and hardening are most valuable."
"One pro is that at the operating system layer, like, RHEL has better support from Red Hat, and if something goes down, I found many resources for troubleshooting and stuff online."
"The product is optimized for resource utilization."
"One of the main reasons we chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux was its reliability and stability. Compared to the Microsoft Windows environment, the Linux environment provided much greater stability."
"The solution offers a secure operation system."
"The initial setup is simple and takes five minutes for deployment and if you have automation in place, it will take four minutes."
"It also was very easy to setup, and offered an easy to use advanced setup option as well. This helped to create special configurations for different use cases."
"The solution is easy to use, secure and allows for simple manipulation."
"SUSE Linux Enterprise is easy to configure for those who are not hardcore command-line driven."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"It is very easy to maintain, migrate and upgrade."
"It is a stable platform."
"When we initially began working with containers, we encountered some challenges with compatibility."
"Red Hat can be tricky at times, but all operating systems are. The moves to systemd and NetworkManager haven't made the product more user-friendly. Let's put it that way. The network management they had before was easier and somewhat more reliable than NetworkManager, which Red Hat forces us to use now."
"A one-click package for hardening all files would significantly improve efficiency compared to the current manual process, especially considering the hundreds of files we've processed over the years."
"It would be great to have an overview of how various Red Hat products work together. They can show how to tie all those pieces together and how to have the products that we work together for our day-to-day processes."
"It could be a bit more user-friendly. It could also be cheaper."
"There are some things that we've seen from RHEL that have given us a little bit of consternation. Their IdM product could be improved greatly. It would be great if they had some type of application built in that would let you do whitelisting for applications. On the government side, for zero trust, that's becoming very important. We're currently using a third-party solution, and it's tough to get it to match up because anytime the kernel changes, you have to match the software to the kernel."
"Deployment is simple if you have been using the solution for a long time. However, it can be complex if you are new to it."
"The licensing model is kind of a mess."
"SUSE Linux could provide more information about cost and the details of how clustering works."
"When working in a Department of Defense environment, Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) have to be followed. SLES is not really addressed directly here. It did make following security policy difficult."
"The solution could be more stable."
"Red Hat has more packages that are available than SUSE does. I'd love to see more projects based on SUSE."
"I don't like the frequency of updates, especially if they're only from the vendor."
"All distributions of Linux could use some improvement."
"Compared with the competition, of late actually, the solution has increased its pricing tremendously."
"If you want to do something simple like changing an IP number, you have to be quite aware of all the configuration files where you will change that."
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is ranked 1st in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 167 reviews while SUSE Linux Enterprise is ranked 6th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 26 reviews. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is rated 8.8, while SUSE Linux Enterprise is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) writes "Highly stable, good knowledge base, and reasonable price". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SUSE Linux Enterprise writes "Stable product compatible with multiple cloud service providers ". Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is most compared with Windows Server, Ubuntu Linux, Windows 10, CentOS and Oracle Linux, whereas SUSE Linux Enterprise is most compared with Ubuntu Linux, openSUSE Leap, Oracle Linux, CentOS and Rocky Linux. See our Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) vs. SUSE Linux Enterprise report.
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